William Friedkin: The Absolute

Published: August 1, 2007, 10:47 pm

The following is a lecture that I delivered on June 28 in Milan, Italy, at La Milanesiana, a festival devoted to literature, cinema and science. I was invited to speak along with seven Nobel Prize winners (including Eli Wiesel, Wole Soyinka), the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Orhan Pamuk, and the British novelist Martin Amis. The festival is sponsored by the Italian newspaper, La Corriele de la Sera, where this lecture was reprinted. It is also being translated and reproduced in Bernard Henri-Levy's magazine, "La Regle De Lajeu." The subject that all of us were given was "The Absolute," and this was my take on the absolute. THE ABSOLUTE or THE MASK OF SANITY What we say is irrelevant to what is and we can only speak about what is once it's proven to be. Galileo could not prove his theory that the earth revolved around the SUN and not the other way around, but he wanted the Church to accept it anyway and to revise its doctrine accordingly. The question was put to

[ Full article ]

Blog link

Comments